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BBC News
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Irish Foreign Minister Micheal Martin has said it is "far too early" to seek a solution to the Irish rejection of a European Union reform treaty.
He spoke ahead of talks by EU foreign ministers on how to respond to the Irish No vote on the Lisbon Treat..
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BBC News
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People in the Irish Republic are voting in a referendum on whether to ratify the European Union reform treaty, in a poll anxiously watched across the EU.
All other 26 member states have left the issue to their parliaments, but Ireland is obliged to hol..
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BBC News
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An Irish teenager has won a High Court battle in Dublin to be allowed to visit Britain for an abortion.
The 17-year old was told by doctors her four-month foetus would not live more than a few days beyond its birth.
She is in the care of the Irish R..
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BBC News
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The Irish language (Gaeilge) is set to get official status in the EU on 1 January, bringing the total to 23...
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BBC News
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Irish Justice Minister Dermot Ahern says substantial vote tallies across the country show the European Union Lisbon reform treaty has been rejected.
Tallies are not official, but Mr Ahern says it is clear the No vote is ahead in a vast majority of cons..
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BBC News
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Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern has announced he is to resign in May.
Mr Ahern, 56, has been taoiseach since June 1997 and has been a member of the Irish Parliament for 31 years.
The announcement comes a day after Mr Ahern began a court challenge..
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CNN
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Iraq's warring factions have reached an agreement aimed at boosting peace following talks with politicians from Northern Ireland and South Africa, according to a Northern Irish lawmaker. Northern Irish Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness and ex-parami..
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BBC News
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Irish PM Bertie Ahern's Fianna Fail party has won the country's general election, but narrowly failed to gain an overall majority in parliament.
The party secured 78 seats in the 166-seat assembly, but saw a decline in the vote of its previous coalitio..
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BBC News
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Bertie Ahern looks set to be returned as taoiseach for a third term, as counting continues in the Irish Republic general election.
One veteran Fianna Fail member said of her party leader: "It was a Bertie Ahern election and he won it for us."
But Mi..
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BBC News
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A 17-year-old pregnant Irish girl is going to the High Court in Dublin to press for the right to travel to Britain for an abortion.
Doctors have told the girl that her four-month foetus will not live more than a few days beyond birth.
She is in the..
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Yahoo News
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Six senior Irish government ministers were forced to call in the army after spending a sweaty half hour trapped in a tiny lift.
Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern, who spent 30 minutes cooped up with cabinet colleagues, including Finance Minister Brian Cowe..
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Yahoo News
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For a city with far more Sakamotos than O'Sullivans, Japan's capital still manages to go all out to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.
Although many Japanese know little about Ireland -- some even confuse it with chilly Iceland -- the small European nation..
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New York Times
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Britain and Ireland are so thoroughly divided in their histories that there is no single word to refer to the inhabitants of both islands. Historians teach that they are mostly descended from different peoples: the Irish from the Celts, and the English fr..
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